Child killed in road-rage shooting
A 4-year-old boy is dead after his parents got involved in an apparent road-rage incident that led to a shooting in LA County’s Lancaster area.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call in the 44600 block of Sierra Highway around 7:30 p.m. Friday. LA County deputies at the scene were told a family got caught in a road rage incident near East Avenue J.
A driver from a different car cut the family off and somehow started following the family through several surface streets, LASD said in a press release. When the family decided to slow down, the suspect car pulled up alongside the family and began opening fire, hitting the 4-year-old boy sitting in the back seat, LASD said in the same press release.
Investigators did not say what triggered the road rage in the first place.
